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She (his future wife) was so deep into the Lord's presence that I felt like an outsider. — Jeremy Camp

It [idolatry] nourishes mans ambition to domineer over his fellow man. Idolatry, therefore, is the source of all social and moral evil in the world. — Abba Eban

Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry. — Martin Luther

Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors. — Jules Verne

Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped. — Saint Augustine

Gold, or at least the prospect of it, saved him, then killed him. — H.W. Brands

Here's the point: idolatry is the tree from which our sins and struggles grow. — Kyle Idleman

How the Idolatry of Christian Same-Sex Marriage Advocates Takes Two General Forms — Joe Carter

Ultimately all idolatry is worship of the self projected and objectified: all idolization is self-idolization. — Will Herberg

By and large, the mission of any ghost is to offer humility. They point out what's important by mocking what is not.
(Joshua Malina, Sports Night) — Aaron Sorkin

To get overprotective about particular readings of the Bible is always in danger of idolatry. — N. T. Wright

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

But with art came idolatry; with construction came ostentation and oppression; with commerce came luxury. — James Oscar Boyd

What I find interesting is that the people that follow your Twitters are called 'followers.' Talk about false idolatry, right? — Emilio Estevez

Dante subsumed everything, and so, in a sense, secularized nothing. — Harold Bloom

If religion might be judged of according to men's intentions, there would scarcely be any idolatry in the world. — Joseph Hall

He would henceforth worship and defend the very reason for Joy, the Almighty Maker of Joy. — Philip Zaleski

Not even generals can stop the rain. — Jeff Shaara

Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more. — William Wordsworth

Shall I say of you that you worship the image of your God that you have in your mind, but not your God? — Margaret Landon

Humor, together with irony,forms a safeguard against idolatry. — Krister Stendahl

As history shows, dead metaphors make good idols. — Elizabeth A. Johnson

The person who does not seek the kingdom first does not seek it at all, regardless of how worthy the idolatry that he or she has substituted for it. — Richard J. Foster

Of England's patrician class, the author writes: It was easy to be agreeable when everything was done to keep them in comfort and ease. — Barbara W. Tuchman

We must worship God before we can reverence parents or women, or root out flunkeyism and money-worship. — Thomas Hughes

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into. — Jonathan Swift

The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of. — Orson Pratt

Whatever a man seeks, honors, or exalts more than God, this is the god of idolatry. — William Bernard Ullathorne

The way we contemplate technology on the horizon says much about who we are and who we are willing to become. — Sherry Turkle

Neither the colourless vagueness of cosmopolitanism, nor the fierce self-idolatry of nation-worship, is the goal of human history. — Rabindranath Tagore

Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life. — George Eliot

Mindset of the man too busy: I am too busy BEING God to become LIKE God. — Mark Buchanan

If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts. — Timothy Keller

Love ceases to be a demon only when he ceases to be a god. — Denis De Rougemont

For him (LBJ) food was not an indulgence but and intoxicant, an object he reached for to fill a gaping void, one he could never fill up. — Jonathan Darman

Admirations are never paid in any way, try to make yourself of what you admire, and it will pay you with originality. — Auliq Ice

Computers brought philosophy into everyday life. — Sherry Turkle

I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry. — Robert Charles Wilson

Shakespeare might have said, we are consumed with that with which we are nourished by. — Sherry Turkle

Saint Augustine defined idolatry as worshiping what should be used or using what should be worshiped — Colin S. Smith

Let temporal things be in the use, eternal things in the desire. — Thomas A Kempis

I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism
the idolatry of the 20th century. — Cornel West

The enemy of joy is not suffering, it is idolatry. — Matt Papa

One thing I must tell you. Idolatry in India does not mean anything horrible. It is not the mother of harlots. — Swami Vivekananda

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. — Pope John Paul II

He looked like an idol consecrated to the gods of arrogance. Damned if I would bow. — Miles Watson

Last Vegas is a counterfeit version of the New Jerusalem. And it shares something of the glorious reality that it mocks. — Richard J. Mouw

I am blind to the very things that make for our own peace. — Oswald Chambers

We may have loved the god that we made up in our minds, but the God of the Bible, we hate. — David Platt

The only way that we can avoid the sin of idolatry is by immersing ourselves in Spirit-enlightened study of God through the Scripture. — Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes - are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

The more time and devotion one spends in the worship of false gods, the less he is able to spend in that of the True One. — Isaac Newton

Could it be that desire for a good thing has become a bad thing because that desire has become a ruling thing? — Paul David Tripp

Idolatry happens when we take good things and make them ultimate things — Timothy Keller

The idol is the measure of the worshipper. — James Russell Lowell

Sometimes God seems to be killing us when He is actually saving us. — Jen Pollock Michel

Overstimulated, we seek out constrained worlds. — Sherry Turkle

To use good things to our own ends is always a false religion — Richard J. Foster

Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again. — Lionel Blue

A worship of truth can be idolatry if the truth is small enough. — Austin O'Malley

Idolatry is still a socially cohesive force - its original function. — Julian Jaynes

The first 10 days of a cattle drive were the most critical, as a stampede was most likely when the cattle were closest to their habitual home. — H.W. Brands

He fetishized limits. — Rick Perlstein

Many of us do not believe in any form of idolatry; but they have no right to object when others do it. — Swami Vivekananda

We have to love technology enough to describe it accurately. And we have to love ourselves enough to confront technology's true effect on us. — Sherry Turkle

The only way to revive Temple worship is through repentance. The men of Judah must give up their idolatry and turn their hearts back to God. — Lynn Austin

The real sin of idolatry is always committed on behalf of something similar to the State. — Simone Weil

Even the best cookery book is no substitute for even the worst dinner. — Aldous Huxley

Since Genesis 3 we have been addicted to setting our sights on something, someone, smaller than Jesus. — Tullian Tchividjian

I had this sort of idolatry for certain actors who preceded me, people who inspired me, so I'm honored to be that way for young actors. — Meryl Streep

Even while an atheist, he held some things sacred. — Philip Zaleski

The minute you hear a sermon on materialism, you're glad somebody else is there to hear it. — Paul David Tripp

We call bad one who rejects the fruit he is given for the fruit he is expecting or the fruit he was given last time. — C.S. Lewis

You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. — Anne Lamott

Sexual intercourse is rapidly becoming the one thing venerated in a world without veneration. — C.S. Lewis

King die hard, in Shakespeare and in life. — Harold Bloom

It is time to cease to argue about God , and instead to unite in the unmasking of contemporary forms of idolatry. — Erich Fromm

Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Too much faith in personality has a tendency to produce weakness and idolatry, but intense love for the Guru makes rapid growth possible. — Swami Vivekananda

Obsession is an idolatry word. — Kyle Idleman

We are guilty of idolatry every time we think about God in any way other than the way Scripture portrays Him. — Barbara Hughes

De Tocqueville says it comes from taking some "incomplete joy of this world" and building your entire life on it. That is the definition of idolatry. — Timothy Keller

Sam Rayburn on LBJ's recuperation from his heart attack: It would kill him if he relaxed. — Robert A. Caro

About the time I told God that He didn't exist, I was desperate for an identity. — Donald Miller

She demanded, "Give up your life of idolatry and become a doctor."
I declined. "I have my geraniums to look after. — Nick Bantock

If we was master, then we could help ourselves. — J.R.R. Tolkien

The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting. — Jonathan Swift

I loved him as we always love for the first time; with idolatry and wild passion. — Voltaire

For what is idolatry if not this: to worship the gifts in place of the Giver himself? — John Calvin

A. W. Tozer says, "The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him."1 — Richard J. Foster

As all the rivers run into the sea, so all delights centre in our Beloved. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

We often forget how thirsty we are because we believe we will fulfill our dreams. — Timothy Keller

When something becomes so important to you that it drives your behavior and commands your emotions, you are worshipping it. — J.D. Greear

Idolatry is when you become the source of your own joy. Poverty of spirit is a wonderful thing. — Paul David Washer

When the article of justification is lost, nothing remains except error, hypocrisy, godlessness, and idolatry. — Martin Luther

To walk into the Jefferson memorial is to be in a temple of the pure idolatry of reason — Scot McKnight

Idolatry is not simply worshiping a stone image; idolatry is any concept of God that reduces Him to less than who He really is. — Ron Carlson

This is what technology wants, it wants to be a symptom. Like all psychological symptoms, it obscures a problem by "solving" it without addressing it. — Sherry Turkle

Worship of society and popular opinion is idolatry. — Swami Vivekananda

Religion is the most fragile of all freedoms. And that's because it is the most threatening to those in power. — Eric Metaxas